Introduction to life-exam and life-builder

[Thomas Weissel]

hello fellow enterprise mailinglist readers and allmighty developers of my
distibution/desktopshell of choice.. (kde-neon)

i want to give you a short introduction of 2 applications i'm working on as
well as to the whole project.

i don't want to waste your time so i make it short.

this is the project:
http://life-edu.eu/

it is a kde-neon based remastered system tailored for schools - everything
we need at our school is on there and students are enabled to use free
software and keep the whole system in their pocket on an usb flashdrive.


as part of this project two important applications have been developed and
reached release candidate state:

life-exam:
https://github.com/valueerrorx/life-exam

and

life-builder:
https://github.com/valueerrorx/life-builder


with life-exam i provide an easy to use system for schools to manage the
upcoming digital exams .. students can Bring Their Own Device - boot from
the flashdrive - connect to their teachers laptop via local accespoint, or
the schools infrastructure or the ap from a mobile device and their systems
can be switched into a secure exam state where information can be
distributed by mouseclick (from the teacher) and the students work is
stored automatically on the teachers computer. the whole featurelist would
make this introduction a long one.. so i stop here :-)  - i provide a
(german) howto.pdf on the webpage with all of the available information
around the project.  the current version is not available as iso file yet
but i will upload asap.

with life-builder i provide a solution for remastering, branding, adjusting
the system and make a distributable copy via mouseclick. it's based on
remastersys. since remastersys is not developed anymore and some knockoffs
exist but don't do what i need i decided to write my own fork and make it
better. (not featurecomplete yet).   you can copy the iso file to a usb
device directly from the application. it also allowes to make an exact copy
of the running flashdrive to another flashdrive (or several conected
flashdrives)  see the screenshots on github ;-)  or here
http://life-edu.eu/news.html


Everything is coded in Python, Qt and Bashscript so it's very easy to read
and understand and i made a lot of comments in the code to explain what it
does..  so if someone wants to jump in - test it - help as bugsquad or
translate the thing...  i would love to have you on board...

I know little to nothing about packaging or doing proper translations (the
UI is in german right now) - so if you find it interesting and wanna
contribute..  it's open source :-)
if you found a bug, have an idea for a feature..  be so kind and post it on
the github page

thank you,
have a nice day!
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